This month is the ideal time to get out into the garden and prep ahead for spring. According to garden designer Butter Wakefield whose own home fittingly features our Original Floral Trail Wallpaper, giving your garden an MOT is the first step. “The most important thing you can do for the health of your garden and a successful growing season ahead is to mulch your borders with an organic manure or compost. Hopefully, you may have left the perennials, grasses and leaves, so collect the leaves separately and place them in hessian sacks to break down. This will create gorgeously valuable leaf mould to mulch your borders with next year.”
forget about all your outdoor visitors too, many of whom will start to return in earnest as the weather warms up;